DEIR EZZOR, Syria – ISIS has released a propaganda video through its affiliated Amaq Agency that depicts fighting between the terrorist group and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Syria.

Part of the video you can see fully covered women participating in battles against the SDF in the eastern desert province of Deir Ezzor. The photos can be seen above and below.

In the next bunch of propaganda photos, a disabled suicide bomber can be seen saying goodbye to his son and visibly distressed daughter.

The images were taken before he conducted a suicide attack against the SDF.

This demonstrates that ISIS are willing to take all measures to defend the small pockets of land they still control in Syria.

This comes as a small pocket of ISIS is being cleared out by the Syrian Army on the Idlib axis in northwest Syria. Details can be read here.

Paul Antonopoulos is a Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies. He has an MA in International Relations and is interested in Great Power Rivalry as well as the International Relations and Political Economy of the Middle East and Latin America.